PAGE 12 | December 21, 2018 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
Washington CLUB
golf event raises $94k
for three charities
The charity check presentation is always a fun event! Great people and great
causes! BULL Session charity recipients pose with check for $6,523,500, the
total amount raised over 28 years. From left to right are: Jill Foster, Wheels
to Walk; Kathy Park, Shriners Hospital for Children; Mikki Herman, Albertina
Kerr; Angie Evans, Gales Creek Camp; Josh Kilever, March of Dimes; and Han-
nah Lobingier, The Swindells Center Providence Child Center.
The Washington CLUB Char-
ity Golf Classic donated
$94,000 to three charities at its
celebration dinner in Seattle in
October. CLUB stands for
Contractors, Legislators,
Unions and Business. The
charities are the Diabetes Re-
search Institute, Holly Ridge
Center, and Seattle Children’s
Hospital.
Founded by the Washington
State Building Trades Council
in 2000, WA-CLUB is now the
largest multi-trade, labor/man-
agement charity event in the
state. Since its inception the
Mary Stoll, an ERISA attorney out of Seattle, won $25,000 for hitting a “Hole
in One” at this year’s Washington CLUB golf tournament. It is the first ace
in the tournament’s 18-year history.
CLUB has donated $1.48 mil-
lion to charities.
Next year’s event will be
back at Gold Mountain Golf
Complex in Bremerton, Wash-
ington, June 12-13.
BULL Session gives lots of
moola to 6 children’s charities
BULL Session Charity Events
donated more than $300,000 to
six Oregon children’s charities
that provide life-changing treat-
ment and accommodations. The
checks were distributed Nov. 14
during a ceremony at the offices
of the Portland offices of the
National Electrical Contractors
Association (NECA).
The BULL Session is a coali-
tion of business, union and labor
leaders who come together to
help provide support services
for children. The money was
raised at the 28th annual BULL
Session golf tournament and
auction, held Sept. 10-11 at the
Oregon Convention Center and
The Reserve Vineyards and
Golf Club, respectively. More
than 400 golfers took part in the
golf tournament this year.
Since its inception in 1991,
the BULL Session has raised
$6,523,500 for the charities,
making it one of Oregon’s
largest charity events.
This year’s recipients were
Albertina Kerr Children’s Crisis
Psychiatric Care Unit, Gales
Creek Camp Foundation, March
of Dimes, Shriners Hospital for
Children-Portland, Swindells
Resource Center of Providence
Child Center, and Wheel to
Walk Foundation.
To find out more about the
BULL Session, go to www.
bullsessioncharity.com.
May your holiday be filled
with the joy of the season
from
OFFICERS, EXECUTIVE BOARD,
MEMBERS & STAFF
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers
& Grain Millers Local 114